M. F. McAuliffe

About M. F. McAuliffe

Born and educated in Adelaide and Melbourne, M. F. McAuliffe taught technical writing, media analysis and basic TV production to engineering and applied science students, before working as a political pollster, technical editor, and librarian. She made her US publishing debut in Damon Knight’s Clarion Awards. In the following 25 years she published fiction and verse varied venues – Adelaide Review, Overland, Australian Short Stories, siglo; in 2000 La Mama Courthouse Theatre (Carlton) used her long poem “Orpheus” as a libretto. In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning, Portland-based magazine, Gobshite Quarterly, where she continues as contributing editor and co-publisher of GobQ Books.